Wednesday, October 19, 2011

How to find the RSU or PUT level maintenance through SMP/E?

Usually, if you are working on a mainframe issue (DB2 or CICS or MQ or any mainframe stuff), and if you are dealing with a 3rd party vendor, they would ask the maintenance level or patch level or PUT level or RSU level of your system or product. How do you find the RSU/PUT level?


If you install your products through SMP/E, this is how you find this information.
Go to SMP/E panel, and enter SMCSI dataset (global zone data set) and select option 3 and hit enter.




Select option 3 from this screen and hit enter.



Just hit enter again (no input for ZONE NAME).



Now select the region you are interested in. GLOBAL zone will show all the RSU that has been RECEIVED (it may or may not be APPLYed already). TARGET zone will show all the RSU that has been APPLYed.


e.g., this screen shows the last maintenance applied (RSU1103), along with the previous maintenance: